EP2197596A1 - Procédé et dispositif de transport d'objets - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de transport d'objets

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EP2197596A1
EP2197596A1 EP08804336A EP08804336A EP2197596A1 EP 2197596 A1 EP2197596 A1 EP 2197596A1 EP 08804336 A EP08804336 A EP 08804336A EP 08804336 A EP08804336 A EP 08804336A EP 2197596 A1 EP2197596 A1 EP 2197596A1
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Gisbert Berger
Jörg-Andreas ILLMAIER
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Siemens AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S209/00—Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
    • Y10S209/90—Sorting flat-type mail

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for transporting objects, in particular postal items.
  • a mail item typically passes through a sorting system at least twice and is then transported to the respectively predetermined destination address. On the first pass, the destination address of the mailpiece is read. On the second pass, the read target address is determined again.
  • the destination address which is stored together with the found feature vector, is used as the destination address to which the item of mail is to be transported.
  • This search requires many feature vectors to be compared with each other, which is time consuming. As the number of transported mail items increases, the risk increases that the wrong feature vector is found among the stored feature vectors. Therefore, limitations of the search space have already been suggested.
  • a method having the features of the preamble of claim 1 and a device having the features of the preamble of claim 6 are known from EP 1222037 Bl.
  • the items are also there mail that go through sorting machines.
  • Such a sorting machine passes Mail items in sorting stations that act as a buffer.
  • a method known as "fingerprinting" is used, for example as presented in DE 4000603 C2.
  • a data record is generated and stored in a central database.
  • This record includes the read delivery address.
  • it is stored which mail item is transported in which container. This approach requires that it is known exactly which mail item is being transported in which bin. Sometimes this can not be determined with sufficient certainty in reality.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method having the features of the preamble of claim 1 and an apparatus having the features of the preamble of claim 6, wherein it is not necessary, the
  • At least one object is spent in a means of transport.
  • the means of transport with the at least one object is transported to a processing plant.
  • the transported with the transport items are supplied to the processing plant.
  • mixing with objects from other transport processes is avoided.
  • This is achieved by the objects of this transport process are supplied in such a way that first all objects from the means of transport of this transport process means of transport are supplied to the processing plant before further objects are supplied to the processing plant.
  • At least one characteristic is specified. This feature is by solution in the form of an optically measurable property.
  • a transported object either has this property in one of several possible expressions or the object does not have the property.
  • a first measurement is made of what value this given feature will take on that item. Here it is measured whether this object has the given property or not, and if so, with which characteristic he has this property. This first measurement is performed before this object is placed in one of the means of transport.
  • the transportation process information is determined and stored, which objects are transported together by this transport process and which feature value which of these objects accepts. For this the results of the first measurements are used.
  • the transport process information comprises, for each item of information, the information as to whether or not this item has a predetermined characteristic in the first measurement and, if so, with which characteristic it has this property. After this object has been supplied to the respective processing plant, it is again measured what value the feature assumes for this article. In this case, it is again measured whether or not this object has a given property during the first measurement or not, and if so, with which characteristic it possesses this property.
  • Each transportation process is determined by which an object with this characteristic of the property has been transported to and transported in a means of transport.
  • the invention takes advantage of the fact that only very few items - often only a single one - have a certain expression of the property.
  • the transport process - or at least the transportation processes still to be considered - can be determined without it being necessary to identify the means of transport used.
  • Such an identification would be a machine-readable or human-readable identifier z. B. in the form of a bar pattern and may be error prone.
  • the susceptibility to errors is further reduced by specifying several properties and using them to determine transport processes.
  • the susceptibility to errors is also reduced by searching for several objects with the property and taking into account the different forms of these found objects.
  • at least one measurable transport attribute is further specified. This transport attribute is, for example, the respective destination address to which an item is to be transported, or a dimension or weight or z.
  • This data set includes the measured transport attribute value as well as each feature value measured at the first measurement.
  • the stored record for the item is determined. For the determination, every feature value measured when re-measuring is used.
  • the search is restricted to the data records of those objects that were transported in one of the ascertained transportation processes.
  • the transport attribute value of the determined data set is used, eg. B. the previously determined destination address.
  • Fig. 1 shows a network with three processing systems
  • Fig. 2 shows the transport of the mail items A1, ..., A5 and B1, ..., B4;
  • the objects to be transported are mail items.
  • Each item of mail is provided with an identification of that delivery address to which this item of mail is to be transported.
  • the delivery address acts as the destination of the mailing.
  • the marking has usually been applied to the postal consignment prior to commencement of transport. But it is also possible that it is attached only during transport.
  • Each mail item goes through a sorting system at least twice. It is possible for a mail item to pass through the same sorting system several times or to pass through a sorting system three times.
  • At the first pass at least the delivery address is determined. It is possible that further features are measured, for. B. the weight of the mail or with which franking the mail item is provided.
  • a reading device tries that of the first
  • OCR Optical Character Recognition
  • Each possible delivery address is assigned to a delivery area. All mail items to the same delivery area are ejected into the same output bin each time they pass. possible lent is that mail is sent to different delivery areas in the same output tray. It is possible for a mail item to pass through the same sorting system several times, for example because the number of output pockets is less than the number of predetermined delivery areas. In this case, an "n-pass sequencing" is preferably carried out Such a method is known from EP 948416 Bl After the first pass, the mail items which the sorting system has discharged into an output tray are brought into a container the feeding device of the second sorting system transported, and the mail items are fed to the sorting system for the second pass.
  • a container with mail items which have passed through a sorting system for the first time, is transported to another location and the mailpieces there are fed to a further sorting system. It is also possible that some mail items are transported from an output tray of the further sorting system in a container to a feeding device of another sorting system and these mail items are fed to the other sorting system.
  • m different features of a mail item are predefined, which can be measured optically, while the mail item passes through a sorting system without damaging the mailpiece. Examples of such features are
  • the location and dimensions of the franking mark eg postage stamp or postage stamp
  • each mail item is provided with a bar pattern. But even if a "fingerprinting" procedure is used, a significant proportion of the mailpieces may be provided with a bar pattern
  • FIG. 1 shows a network with three processing systems AnI-I, Anl-3 and Anl-4. These three processing plants are designed in the embodiment as sorting.
  • Each sorting installation has a feeder in the form of a feeder, a reading device and a large number of output compartments, and mailpieces are fed to the material inlets of such a sorting system
  • the sorting system uses the image to determine the delivery address and sends the postal item to one of the output bins depending on the recognized delivery address:
  • Each of the three sorting systems AnI-I, Anl-4, Anl-4 and one another sorting system Anl-2 is connected to a central database DB and has read and write access to this database DB.
  • Material input ZE-I fed to the sorting system AnI-I The sorting system AnI-I generates a digital image of each mail item and determines the delivery address. Initially, the sorting system AnI-I attempts to automatically determine the delivery address by means of "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR) If this is not successful, the image is transmitted to a video coding station and an agent manually enters the delivery address - or at least the postal code - Depending on the respectively determined delivery address, the sorting system AnI-I discharges the mail item into one of the output compartments.
  • OCR Optical Character Recognition
  • FIG. 1 In the example of FIG. 1, three output bins Af-A, Af-B and Af-E of the sorting system AnI-I are shown.
  • the mail items which the sorting system AnI-I has discharged into the output compartment Af-E are moved in the example of FIG. 1 into a container Beh-3.
  • the container Beh-3 with these postal items is again the material input ZE-I of the sorting system AnI-I transported.
  • the mail items from the container Beh-3 are separated from the material input ZE-I and again go through the sorting system AnI-I.
  • containers function as the means of transport. Instead of containers, other means of transport can be used.
  • the mail items from the output tray Af-E of the sorting system AnI-I can be z. B. also with a conveyor belt or by means of a Umlademaschine back to the feeder ZE-I of AnI-I transport.
  • the mail items which the sorting system AnI-I has discharged into the output compartment Af-A are moved in the example of FIG. 1 into a container Beh-2.
  • the container Beh-2 with these postal items is transported to the material input ZE-2 of the second sorting system Anl-2.
  • the mail items from the container Beh-2 are separated from the material input ZE-2 and go through the sorting system Anl-2.
  • These are transported in container Beh-3 for substance input ZE-3 of the third sorting plant Anl-3.
  • the mail items from the output tray Af-E are again fed to the feeder ZE-I and again run through the system AnI-I.
  • One reason for this may be that "n-pass sequencing" is performed, as just described It is also possible that individual mail items pass through the sorting system AnI-I several times because an "off-line video coding" is performed.
  • a digital image of the mailpiece is generated. It is not possible to automatically detect the address in this image, so that the image is transmitted to a video coding station. There, the address is entered manually. After this has been done, the mail item again passes through the sorting system and is discharged into an output tray depending on the entered address. It is also possible that mail items are shipped within a location or delivery area and the first sorting system AnI-I for this Therefore carries out both the incoming sorting and the subsequent outgoing sorting.
  • the sorting installation AnI-I generates a data record for each mail item which the sorting installation AnI-I passes through and stores it in the central database DB as part of a transport information item I.
  • This record includes
  • An identifier for the delivery address which the first sorting system AnI-1 has read is an identifier for the delivery address which the first sorting system AnI-1 has read.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I determines, for each mail item that passes through the sorting system AnI-I, which value each predefined feature assumes in this mail item. As a result, the first sorting system AnI-I generates a feature vector (more precisely, a feature value vector), which consists of n feature values given n characteristics.
  • the data record for the mailing is supplemented by the first sorting system AnI-I by the feature vector, d. H. an identification of the n feature values.
  • the third sorting system Anl-3 also measures for each mail item that passes through the sorting system Anl-3, which value assumes each predetermined feature for this mail item. As a result, the third sorting system Anl-3 also generates a feature vector with n feature values. The third sorting system Anl-3 performs a read access to the central database DB. The feature vectors of stored data sets are compared with the currently measured feature vector. As a result, the data record is determined which depends on the current comes to be examined mailing. This data record includes the delivery address of the mail item which the first sorting system AnI-1 has read.
  • a coding of the delivery address to which the item of mail is to be transported is stored in the data record of a mail item.
  • This delivery address acts as the edit attribute of the item.
  • other processing attributes are additionally measured and stored during the first sorting run, eg. B. a weight or a dimension or a surface finish of the mailpiece.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates the transport of the mail items Al, ..., A5 and Bl, ..., B4.
  • the mail items Al, ..., A5 and Bl, ..., B4 first pass through the first sorting system AnI-I.
  • the reading device of this first sorting system AnI-I reads the respective identification of the delivery address, with which the mailpieces Al,..., A5, Bl,..., B4 and other continuous mailpieces are provided.
  • a measuring device of the first sorting system AnI-I measures which values the predefined characteristics for the mail items Al,..., A5 assume. This measuring device also measures which values the predefined characteristics for the mail items Bl,..., B4 assume.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates the transport of the mail items Cl, ..., C6 and Dl and D2.
  • the mail items Cl, ..., C6 pass through a second sorting system Anl-2.
  • a reading device of this second sorting system Anl-2 reads the respective identification of the delivery address, with which the postal items Cl,..., C6, D1, D2 and further continuous mailpieces are provided.
  • a measuring device of the second sorting system Anl-2 measures which values the predetermined characteristics for the mail items Cl,..., C6 assume. This measuring device also measures which values the predefined characteristics assume for the mailpieces D 1 and D 2.
  • a transport process is thus characterized in the exemplary embodiment by: an output bin of a sorting plant as a starting point of the transport process,
  • each sorting system registers which items of mail are ejected into which output bin.
  • each sorting system registers which transport processes emanate from this sorting system.
  • two of the total m features are given as specially marked optically detectable properties, namely
  • a machine-readable identifier e.g. B. a bar pattern ("bar code”) or a matrix code, on the front of the mailpiece (Merk_V) and
  • machine-readable identifier e.g. B. a bar pattern or a matrix code
  • the identifier is one that uniquely identifies the mail item.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I and the second sorting system Anl-2 register information about transport processes.
  • This transportation process information I TV-I, I TV-2, I TV-3, I_TV-4 are stored in the central database DB.
  • the following transport process information I TV-I is stored via the first transport process TV-I:
  • the symbol ./. means that the respective mailpiece does not carry a bar pattern on the front or back.
  • the transport operation information I TV-I further comprises the respective value of each other feature for the five mailpieces A-I to A-5, which is not shown in the table.
  • the corresponding transport process information I_TV-2, I TV-3, I TV-4 are also stored on the other three transport processes TV-2, TV-3 and TV-4.
  • the mail items AI, ..., A-5 are transported from the output compartment Af-A of the first sorting system AnI-I in the first container Beh-1 to the feeding device ZE-3 of the third sorting system Anl-3.
  • the invention eliminates the need for the third sorting system Anl-3 to measure an identifier of the first container Beh-1 and a point in time at which the transport process TV-I was started or ended. It suffices that the third sorting system Anl-3 registers that a transport process TV-w reaches the feeding device ZE-3. Furthermore, the third sorting installation Anl-3 registers which items of mail which pass through the third sorting installation Anl-3 were transported in this transport operation TV-w to the third sorting installation Anl-3. Accordingly, the fourth sorting system Anl-4 registers that Transport process TV-x with the postal items BI, ..., B-4 reaches the feeder ZE-4.
  • the mailpieces Al,..., A5 are singulated by the feeder ZE-3 of the third sorting system Anl-3.
  • a measuring device of the third sorting system Anl-4 again measures which values the predefined characteristics for the mailpieces Al,..., A5 assume. In the exemplary embodiment, these are the values of the two marked features Merk V and Merk R as well as the values of further features.
  • the mail items Bl, ..., B4 are separated by the feeder ZE-4 of the fourth sorting system Anl-4.
  • a measuring device of the fourth sorting system Anl-4 again measures which values the predetermined characteristics for the mailpieces Bl, ..., B4 accept. The corresponding applies to the postal items Cl, ..., C6, Dl and D2.
  • the central database DB Whenever a mail item again passes through a sorting system, in the central database DB the data record which was stored for this mail item is searched for. If, therefore, the mail item A-I passes through the third sorting system Anl-3, the database for the mailpiece A-I is searched for in the central database DB. This data record was created when the mail item A-I passed through the first sorting system AnI-I.
  • Each record for a mailing includes
  • Transport process - or which transport operations - each mail item is removed from a sorting system.
  • These Information is stored as part of the transportation process information.
  • the feature values measured when re-measuring for a mailpiece are compared with feature values of stored records.
  • This comparison is carried out automatically by a data processing system DVA, which is connected to the central database DB. It would be very time-consuming if the measured feature values would have to be compared with the feature values of all stored data records. Therefore, a preselection is made among the stored records.
  • the third sorting system Anl-3 carries out a restriction of the search space and first determines from which outgoing transport process the mail items originate from an arriving transport process.
  • the third sorting system Anl-3 determines that mail items from a transport process Tv-w pass through the third sorting system Anl-3.
  • the measuring device of the third sorting system Anl-3 measures the two first values of the first n consecutive postal fertilizers which the two marked features Merk V and Merk R assume for these n mailings.
  • these two features Merk V and Merk R are the presence of a bar pattern or a matrix code on the front side and a bar pattern or a matrix code on the back side and the respectively coded string - or the statement that the mail item does not have a bar pattern on the front side and / or or none on the back.
  • the mail items from the transport process Tv-w pass through the third sorting system Anl-3 in FIG.
  • n 2.
  • the characteristic Merk_V thus assumes the value "01224".
  • One mail piece carries the bar pattern for "01224" on the front, another the bar pattern for "aldkrje" on the back.
  • s> s_min and the measurements are interrupted.
  • the central database DB is searched for the transport process information.
  • each outgoing transport process is determined, the
  • the transport process TV-I is determined as the only transport process. From this it is concluded that the incoming transport process TV-w is identical to the transport process TV-I.
  • n_max is used so that the complete measurement of each mail item does not start too late. If the transport process can not be determined after n_max mail items at the latest, it will no longer be determined in the exemplary embodiment, and no search space restriction will be carried out.
  • the data record for this mail item is determined in the central database DB.
  • the data record that was stored for this mail item in the central database DB is searched. This search is restricted to those records that come from mail that was transported in the TV-I transport process. For this search, the transport process information I TV-I and the m feature values of the mailing are used.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates this sequence for searching mailpieces with globally secure features by means of a flowchart.
  • the reference signs have the following meanings:
  • Sl (n) is the step of measuring the first n consecutive postal items, the two values of the two features Merk V and Merk_R being measured by each of these n mailpieces.
  • - S2 (n) is the step of counting how many of these n mail items have at least one predetermined property, that is, in the embodiment, have a bar pattern on the front side or on the back side. This number is called s.
  • - S3 (n) is the step that the now nth [previously (n + 1) - th] mail item is measured, whereby it is measured which values the two features Merk_V and Merk_R assume for this mail item.
  • - S4 (s) is the step that the at least s characteristics for the s found mailings are determined with at least one identified feature.
  • El is the result consisting of the at least s occurrences found by step S4 (s).
  • S5 (s) is the step of searching for an outbound transport operation comprising s mailpieces which have just the s occurrences of El found in step s4 (s).
  • the transport operation information is used for this search.
  • Transport operations exists.
  • the search for the data records for mailpieces is then restricted to the mailpieces from these ascertained transport processes.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I can thus discharge the mailpieces in a different order into the sorting compartment Af-A, as these mail items later pass through the feed device ZE-3 of the third sorting system Anl-3.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif de transport d'objets (A-1,..., B-1,...), notamment d'envois postaux. Au cours de plusieurs processus de transport, les objets (A-1,..., B-1,...) sont transportés vers un dispositif de traitement respectif. Pour chaque objet (A-1,..., B-1,...), une mesure est réalisée avant le transport afin de déterminer si l'objet possède une propriété prédéfinie, et si oui, dans quelle catégorie. Cette mesure est réalisée à nouveau après que l'objet (A-1,..., B-1,...) a été acheminé vers un dispositif de traitement (Anl-3). Pour chaque objet, le processus de transport (TV-1) ayant servi au transport de l'objet est déterminé. A cet effet, une détermination est réalisée afin de déterminer quels objets ont été transportés avec quelle catégorie de la propriété au moyen de quel processus de transport.
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